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The Sound Force and Jammingbirds valks have built-in speakers which transmit sound waves, but they are only used within the atmosphere of planets, as they are obviously ineffective in space. However, for space battles the pilot launches speakerpods that penetrate the enemies' crafts, and thus the sound reaches them. In later episodes, other weapons are introduced which utilise the sound energy itself, not just sound waves, which can travel through space. For example, the Sound Boosters and the Sound Blaster (I think that's what it was called -- the one that uses the Battle 7 Gunship) use the sound energy convertor and fire off beams of energy.

Yes. In "reality".

I thought they were added in because the animators had made Max shoot a giant laser beam and there wasn't time to totally redraw the scene. 318294[/snapback] The LoneWolf is right. Specifically, a previous episode had shown that it took all the firepower of Hikaru's armoured Valk to destroy the same type of enemy ship that in the first draft of the episode in question Max blew up with his regular missiles. So Itano went back and re-drew the entire scene. The lineart for the tailfin missiles can be found in this book: ..... I think that's the one, anyway.

Kung-Pow: Enter the Fist. Most quotable movie ever. "Yeeesss, yeeessss. Play me like a drum."

Sweet. I'm as excited about this as I am of the 1/48 GBP armour.

I believe the Neo is from Macross Plus: Game Edition, while the Variable Glaug is from Macross M3.

Photoshop masters.....we need you!!! 317640[/snapback] My girlfriend just kind of volunteered to give the picture color. Her exact words were, "No! I need to do it because It will be terrible unless they put it in traditional art nouveau colors." So she wants to do it for coloring practice in photo shop, and because she loves Mucha's work which this is based on. So we'll see what happens. 317661[/snapback] Yes!! I'm so looking forward to this, as I too am an avid Alphonse Mucha fan.

While I am glad to see that competitions like these prove the Super Dimension shows have not been entirely forgotten in their homeland, my modelling skills are too basic to participate.

Funny thing about Yoshi, as much a die-hard fan as he was, it seemed he just totally gave his hobby up. He and I were in contact because he was coming to Japan, and in fact when he came over about a year ago he happened to be very near my house. So I have his contact details and stuff, and I asked if he wanted to meet, and he said yeah, I'll wait a while until things cool down 'cos I'm so busy and stuff. Next thing I know he contacts me again after several months and says yeah, no time right now, but let's meet at some point. And I haven't heard from him since. I can't really complain, though, because I am like that with a lot of people myself.

I can't believe I never, ever found any TECT resin custom parts for the 1/144 kits of ten years ago. It would have been my only chance to own the Full Armoured Thunderbolt: It, along with the Koenig Monster, was top on my Yamato wish-list. Yamato made the first dream come true, now let's see if it can realise the second.

I don't get that last one. Do I have to know anything about Robotech, or its production staff or something?

Yeah, I own that picture too. I always wished it was in colour, though. Never thought I'd hear of finding it in a men's room!! Here, this is where it's from: http://www.macrossworld.com/macross/books/...lustrations.htm (The top one, with Minmay on the cover)

They made this into a show now??? Forget the Gundam kits, this is being milked more than Gundam itself. Jesus. Last thing I remember the movie had just come out a while ago. I haven't seen it but it got bad reviews. This is based on a true story, by the way. I read it in the paper ages ago.

I say this with every possible connotation: Minmay all the way.

Actually, episode one came out in 2002.

"In more ways than one"? I didn't even notice one single way...

Yeah, I was at Osaka University last year while this thing was being developed. I was in Human Sciences but my friend is a researcher in robotics and he kept telling me about how this android thing is like, really realistic from afar but up close it's kinda weird... Then I saw it on TV a few weeks ago in action, and boy, it looks like crap.

Except in the actual Japanese dialogue they say "L-O-V-E- Ha-pi Mi-n-me-i" (phonetically rendered). The confusion comes from the sign in the back of the scene you're referring to (the one, I'm assuming where the three stooges attend a Minmay concert, right? ), which does say "LOVE Lovely Minmay". 314712[/snapback] No, I'm serious, they DO say "Lovely Minmay" in the dialogue, as well. Turn the subs off, or close your eyes from distractions, or something -- that IS what they are saying. Animeigo just heard wrong. In fact, that line even became a Macross catchphrase. If you can read katakana at least, check out this site (the top post): http://www.lynnminmay.com/bbs/yybbs/yybbs.cgi?page=30&bl=0 This one (about the middle of the page): http://sotv.bnnm.net/huruhousou0312a.htm This one (SDF Macross only gets three stars??): http://03.members.goo.ne.jp/~member/hobby/...w&id=taby12@goo Well, I can't provide an actual script of the actual show, but that's my evidence, after Googling "ラブリーミンメイ" ("Lovely Minmay"). Meanwhile, "ãƒãƒƒãƒ”ーミンメイ" ("Happy Minmay") gets you zero results.

Hey, the new issue of Figure Oh has all the latest info on the Chogokin, complete with a step-by-step photo guide of the overly-complex transformation process. It looks pretty cool... but also pretty fragile. I think the release date was written but I've forgotten it now. Anyway, it's soon, I think!

Not all the info. Look: There's no way of knowing exactly what was said. Anyway, from all the stuff I've read about him, that Don Murphy dude is a real weirdo. He pretty much called Nevermore of the TF Archive a Nazi.

In the original script he is told that Roy died in the very same hospital that Hikaru was in at the moment.

Chris Latta. I read somewhere recently how Billy West (Fry in Futurama, Bugs Bunny in Space Jam) was pissed off about the recent trend of getting "stars" to play leadds in animation features. He would talk about how the auditions were set up to get VAs like West in the studio, see their ad-lib stuff, and then the producers would suggest those quirks to the "star" actors. All in all, I think if you want to be true to the characters, you've got to bring back the people who played them best. If you want Will Smith as Blaster, for example, it's just Will Smith being Blaster, no more than that. When I see Blaster on the screen, I want to hear Blaster. I don't want some schmuck doing an impression of him. And that comment of di Bonaventura's about them just being "TV cartoon guys" is so patronising.

I don't remember Roy being disrobed. In fact, I clearly recall him lying dead in a huge, dark hospital room full of nothing,still in his uniform, which I thought was ridiculous.

Kawamori went to California to pitch it to some studios there. Preproduction began, but it never developed further. At the same time, he was gonna do an all-CGI Macross series. In the end, he canned both and decided to do Mac Zero instead.

SV-51 DD Ivanov. Jet black and evil.